Study shows that two catalysts with the same function essentially employ the same technique despite being based on different molecular species

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A study that could provide a clue to the origin of life, an international team of researchers in Japan and the USA, has elucidated interactions between proteins and transfer RNA and found that two completely different molecular species came to develop similar mechanisms.

Takamasa Teramoto, assistant professor, and Yoshimitsu Kakuta, professor, of Kyushu University’s Faculty of Agriculture, in collaboration with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (USA) and the University of Michigan (USA), now report in a study selected as a breakthrough article in Nucleic Acids Research new details on how the protein-only version interacts with tRNA.

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Takamasa Teramoto, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Agriculture